Information Gathering and Damage Prediction Problems and Solution Methods for Urgent Post-Disaster Damage Assessment via Drones

Operations in the disaster response and recovery phases are difficult to manage. It is necessary to quickly evaluate the current post-disaster conditions to decide which resource should be sent where and when. In addition, resource assignments may need to be updated as new information on current post-disaster conditions becomes available. This project aims to establish an analytical framework that includes new routing problems and solution methods to carry out emergency damage assessment operations with drones and plan search and rescue operations with constantly collected damage assessment data during the response phase after a severe earthquake affecting a large area. It aims to analyze the results of the framework with a realistic case analysis.